Business Startup - April 2008
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Sunday, 27 April 08 - 03:57 PM (GMT) By Justin Dean in Events |
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This weekend saw London's Business Start-up Event at the Excel Centre. Terapad were there, and although we had a fantastic time it's fair to say we were completely overwhelmed by the positive response 
Our stand was small, but was permanently crowded. Our team had to work non-stop, sacrificing all their breaks in order to speak to all those that were interested in Terapad. Unfortunately, even with our best intentions, I feel we didn't get round to speaking to everyone and for that I can only apologise. Hopefully next time we will go with twice the staff and a much larger stand!
From Raiki Healers, and Life Coaches to Online Shoe Shop Owners and Travel Agents we met literally hundreds of individuals with great business ideas. Terapad was a perfect solution for so many of these entrepreneurs and over 700 people signed up for a free website whilst at the event. Terapad sign up rates have been over double the average so we can only assume that many more have been signing up after leaving the event.
William Millott from Terapad helps budding entrepreneurs set up a free website.
It was a great opportunity for us to listen to our clients and get a better understanding for what they are looking for in Terapad. We are taking all that feedback on board and I believe it will benefit all Terapad users, not just those attending the show.
Robert Saleh, Sales Manager for Terapad reseller HTLonline , accompanied Terapad to the event. He was on hand to help those interested in services beyond the scope of Terapad. HTLonline took orders for creating custom Templates, providing domain names, and even maintaining computer networks. Robert commented “It was really good of Terapad to invite us along to Business Startup. Their commitment to us as a reseller is really first class, and our relationship is becoming hugely beneficial to both companies. For HTLonline this means increased sales in an area of the market we previously struggled to reach".
It’s good to hear our resellers benefit as much as we do, and if any of our other resellers would like us to attend an event with them, please contact your channel manager.
So our thanks goes out to all those who we met at the show, and especially all those who signed up 
All of us at Terapad wish you the very best of luck with your start-up businesses and your free Terapad websites.
Terapad to attend Business Startup Event
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Friday, 22 February 08 - 03:11 PM (GMT) By Joshua Davidson in Events |
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The event is the UK's biggest and most interactive small business exhibition and we will be there to demonstrate Terapad to over 30,000 small business owners. The fact that Terapad websites are free is going to cause quite a stir!
A business starting out today needs exposure and
free services to survive and this event is designed to assist small businesses in every way possible.
However there will be few exhibitors that will offer as much in this regard as Terapad. By simply visiting
us in Stand 88 or our website at http://www.terapad.com attendees will be able to sign up for a free website with a shop, news feed, forum, image gallery, events calendar and more.
The Terapad team are also looking forward to meeting with the many entrepreneurs that will be attending the event. Terapad currently partners with companies from all over the world and we will therefore be interested to speak to anyone that thinks their organisation could benefit from offering cheap but effective websites to their current clients.
Websites are an increasingly important part of all businesses and societies. In fact already this year Terapad has assisted sports clubs, brass bands, charities and many other types of organisations from across the world. Terapad is unique in providing businesses with their own search engine optimized website, which also connect to a community of existing Terapad users and therefore ensures high levels of interest.
If you would like a free ticket to attend the event simply visit http://www.bstartup.com.
We look forward to meeting you there.
Reseller Launch Event - Date Announced
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Thursday, 15 November 07 - 02:15 PM (GMT) By Justin Dean in Events |
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Terapad are delighted to announce a date for the official launch of the Terapad Reseller Package.
The Package has already caused a great deal of interest from the Web Design community, and despite the details only appearing on our website for a few days we have already registered resellers from all round the world.
Terapad are looking for Resellers to appear live on the Reseller Directory on the day of its launch, so if you are interested in adding your details please get in touch. The email address for contacting our channel management team is channel@terapad.com or use our registration form.
More details of the launch event including how to register can be found here . We are hosting it on Monday, 10th December at the New Connaught Rooms in central London.
Alternately feel free to visit our reseller pages or download pdf versions of our event invitation or the ancilliary information pack.Adobe Business Exchange
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Thursday, 01 November 07 - 10:32 AM (GMT) By Stephan Tual in Events |
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The event itself was great, and we had some very inspirational speakers present, in particular David Keene, VP Technology EMEA at SAP, who did a fantastic job at highlighting how the accelerating rate of technology adoption in the home is affecting the enterprise in surprising ways. For example, how a lot of people today have better means of productivity at home rather than work - it was hard not to think about Terapad at that moment!
He also mentioned how his 8 years old son rather use the Internet than watch television. Having an 11 year old daughter myself I could definitely relate. When this new generation gets a job (a job which hasn't been invented yet), do you think they will have any difficulty jumping straight in the web interfaces in use in their workplace? Of course not. In fact, they will probably seek solutions for their enterprise similar to the tools they grew up with.
If these kids want to place a video online, they do not need to reach out to a video production agency to convert the video. They do not need to open a video editing package either, no matter 'user friendly' these might have become. They just head for YouTube.
So when this generation will want to have a website created, do you think they will:
- Instinctively go and ring a Web Design agency, go through 3 weeks of exchanging technical specs, then pay 20K for an average website?
- Do you think they will feel the urge of learn HTML and server-side programming themselves? Or pay to send a few interns to go on a training course?
- ... or even purchase an 'easy to deploy' CMS package? (as if such thing existed... )
Of course not. They'll be thinking 'What's the YouTube for that?'.
Adobe Business Exchange 2007
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Thursday, 04 October 07 - 04:33 PM (GMT) By Joshua Davidson in Events |
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Terapad is pleased to announce our attendance at the Adobe Business Exchange 2007.
Terapad’s Technical Director Stephan Tual has been asked to speak at the event on the subject of customer engagement & web 2.0.
"The challenge of customer engagement" is one of the key themes of the Adobe Business Exchange 2007 and the conference discussions will focus on how customer engagement relates to technology and business.
Over 200 key decision makers, Adobe partners and industry experts are expected to attend to help analyse the processes by which organisations look to engage with their customers.
Tual will be joining key figures in the industry such as; Mike Harris the founder of internet bank Egg, Alison Davies of Information Management MHRA, William Band from Forrester Research, Chris Kendall of DCLG and David Keene the Vice President of EMEA Marketing.
If you are interested in attending the event, which will be held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London on the 31st October, you can still register on the event website by clicking here.
SiteJourney to present at Software 2007
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Tuesday, 24 April 07 - 08:26 AM (GMT) By Justin Dean in Events |
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“Powered by Innovation” is the theme of Software 2007 and the conference discussions will focus on innovation as it relates to products, processes, technologies, business and delivery models. Over 2,000 CEOs, VPs, VCs, CIOs, media and analysts are expected to attend and help define the future of the industry.Stephan Tual of SiteJourney Ltd will be joining key figures in the industry such as Steve Ballmer of Microsoft; Marc Benioff from Salesforce.com; Edward J. Zander from Motorola, David Dewalt from EMC Corporation,
As a guest of the UK Trade and Investment team you can find us in the Global Pavilion, demonstrating and presenting our products and services.
If you are interested in visiting us you can take advantage of our special negotiated rate of $1,495 that lets you to register and bring along 3 members of your exec team at no extra charge. The regular rate is $1,795. Please register here and enter 'partner07' in the registration code field.
We look forward to meeting you in May at Software 2007.
Next Mashup* coming up
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Saturday, 07 April 07 - 11:39 AM (GMT) By Stephan Tual in Events |
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The next Mashup* will take place at the BT center in London. That evening's topic will be "Identity 2.0". More information in our event calendar as well as on the official page.
Wiki Wednesdays: 2.0 events done right.
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Thursday, 05 April 07 - 08:21 AM (GMT) By Stephan Tual in Events |
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Hi, Stephan here, I'll be participating from time to time on the official Terapad blog.
"Wiki Wednesdays" are a series of events running in 10 cities around the world, focused, as the title implies, on Wiki technologies. The concept was started by Wiki platform SocialText, however they now let the community run the events.
I attended the London one yesterday night, my first time at a Wiki Wednesday, and didn't really know what to expect. My experience has been that events - even remotely- connected to companies directly involved in the industry tend to be rather limiting in terms of what can or cannot be said without risking offending the organizers.
Nothing could have been further from the truth at this event organized and moderated by David Terrar, from Business Two Zero. In fact, they seemed to get everything right, and I hope other London events will take a page from their book, as the evening of presentations just flew by and it was time to go home before I knew it.
Everyone had a chance to speak
So what makes it so different?
The format, where everyone who signed up as a speaker is given a chance to speak for 5 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of lively discussion with the audience. Presenters go in the order they registered, and timing is strictly enforced (I wish it was true about all events!), meaning:
- A true democratic forum where everyone who signed up (it's free) can speak, not just the so called industry 'digerati'.
- Timings keep everyone honest: once your 5 minutes are up, you're out, there's no favoritism
- The audience never has to sit through endless corporate powerpoint slides, as the next speaker is already on stage as soon as the previous one is finished.
- Because of the high number of speakers, you get to see a lot of cool technologies with a couple of hours
- There's a real interaction with the audience as there's as much time dedicated to presentation that there is for Q&A
You couldn't get more central in terms of location
The location was not half bad either, as Microsoft provided a very interestingly designed room called the 'Swimming Pool' - complete with a good quality projector, laptop, audio output, and even diving board (it's called the Swimming Pool for a reason). Microsoft also provided the food, beer and wine. Kudos to them!
You can read a summary of what was presented that night here and here. Overall, it was an excellent event, and I'll definitely try to attend the next one.
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